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Arrival
Make small rudder corrections to track a point at the far end of the runway and close the offset before touchdown.
What happened: You touched down with the centreline offset by 4.9 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline alignment, keeping offset inside the limit.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 71 kt, on the 69 kt target, and lifted off at 73 kt 0.5 s later, the nose coming up at 0.8° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 89 kt target, at 84 kt on average.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 714 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,064 m of runway left; then climbing at 650 fpm on average to 714 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,916 m runway.
Rolled from 110 m in, drifted 2.2 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 32 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 61 kt. Touched down with the nose 4° into wind, wings level.
Wind 273° at 4 kt · 2 kt tail · 3 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 65 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 16 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 32 ft, 18 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 33 ft. Touched down 362 m in, 57 m past the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 360 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.8° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,557 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.3 m right of the centreline and drifted to 9.9 m left on the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 362 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA40 departed KAZC Colorado City Municipal Airport from runway 11. The take-off roll was 647 m, using 34 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 71 kt. Local weather was 20 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 110°, giving a 1 kt crosswind and a 5 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 63 seconds, averaging 464 fpm and reaching 85 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 5,591 ft asl to 6,102 ft asl in 1 minute, covering 1 nm while passing overhead Centennial Park.
Cruise was maintained at 6,500 ft asl for 19 minutes, covering 41 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-west of Centennial Park. Descent began at 6,496 ft asl and proceeded to 2,026 ft asl in 7 minutes, covering 14 nm, starting 4 miles north-east of Beaver Dam.
The approach to runway 02 at 67L Mesquite was stabilized. Threshold speed was 70 kt, which was noted as good. The aircraft was configured for landing and the flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred at 60 kt, with a touchdown distance of 361 m, a rate of -75 fpm, and a position 4.9 m off the centreline. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 735 m, representing 47 % of the 1,557 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm. The overall flight covered 61 nm in 39 minutes and consumed 10 kg of fuel.
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